If you drop the requirement that you have a reasonably-sized flat image, you can get a perfect representation... as long as you stand in exactly one spot to vie

If you drop the requirement that you have a reasonably-sized flat image, you can get a perfect representation... as long as you stand in exactly one spot to view it (or throw it into VR). If you intentionally use a nonlinear perspective like the Turner painting in the article, you can get an image that looks great flat, and still produces a wide angle of view and "natural" dense of depth with low perceived distortion, and will look fine from across the room or up close. It probably does a better job of recreating what it is like to be there than a mechanical linear perspective photograph. The only problem is you can't get images like that out of a camera.